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Three Cases of Amnesia Jonah Bokaer JONAH BOKAER WED / SEPT 07 / 7:30PM the curtis r. priem experimental media empac.rpi.edu and performing arts center 518.276.3921 Three Cases Of Amnesia Jonah Bokaer — An evening consisting of three technology-infuenced solo dance and media A dancer, choreographer, and media artist, Jonah Bokaer is one of this generation’s works. False Start, Charade, and Nudedescendance are choreographed and performed most important dance innovators, pursuing the relationship between chore- by Jonah Bokaer through the use of digital choreographic software and 3D ography and technology. His keen sense for choreography has always seamlessly animation. looped innovative technologies like animation software into conceptually rich dances that push the formal boundaries of performance. I couldn’t be more False Start (2007) excited to introduce our audience to Jonah’s sensitivity and intellect, not only “self description is a calamity.” as an artist but also as a person. Both are evident in the way that he seriously, – Jasper Johns yet humorously, approaches Tree Cases Of Amnesia. Charade (2006) In this work, Jonah combines three of his iconic solos—False Start, Charade, “an empty canvas is full.” and Nudedescendance. Rarely performed in the United States, the program – Robert Rauschenberg showcases the choreographer’s pioneering work with 3D animations. Where does a movement begin? Where does it end? What, and who, does it leave Nudedescendance (2005) behind? Jonah uses a digital avatar to compose body movements that he “I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to might not discover working with a physical person, and he then transposes my own taste.” that choreography onto his own body for live performance. He and his animated – Marcel Duchamp double dance together and apart, the uncanny precision of each movement building upon the last. Tere are fast-paced and complex phrases coupled with everyday movements like walking and sitting; both highlight Jonah’s Duration: 60 minutes physical precision and virtuosity. Te result is a portrait of an artist and the various media he comes in contact with—not just a computer, its software and projections, but also a chair, a ladder, an apple, and clothing. — It’s exciting to have the opportunity to show Tree Cases Of Amnesia at EMPAC, CHOREOGRAPHY & PERFORMANCE: JONAH BOKAER as it provides an important context for Jonah’s more recent works like Recess VIDEO & ANIMATION: JONAH BOKAER and Why Patterns, which are collaborations with visual artist Daniel Arsham MUSIC/SOUND: APHEX TWIN, JONAH BOKAER, CHRISTIAN MARCLAY, PEACHES & HERB and tour more often in the US. Tis earlier work is a rare look at Jonah’s relation- LIGHTING DESIGN: JOHN TORRES ship to the choreographic process and those tools that frst inspired his lasting STAGE MANAGEMENT: JACKIE MULLEN interest in design, memory, play, ephemerality, and disappearance. DIRECTION OF DOCUMENTATION AND CINEMATOGRAPHY: MARISELA LA GRAVE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: NATASHA KATERINOPOULOS ASHLEY FERRO-MURRAY, ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF THEATER AND DANCE JONAH BOKAER JOHN TORRES CHOREOGRAPHY & DIRECTION LIGHTING DESIGN Jonah Bokaer has cultivated a new form of choreography with a structure that John Torres’ work includes designs for dance, theatre, music, fashion and relies on visual art and design. His aim is to transform notions of how the print. In collaboration with Robert Wilson, productions have included Einstein public views and understands dance. Bokaer’s approach to art making has on the Beach (2013-2015 World Tour), Cheek to Cheek Live! With Tony Bennett been acknowledged by museums such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Lady Gaga (PBS Great Performances), La Traviata (Landestheatre Linz), MoMA PS1, MAC Marseille, IVAM Valencia, Palazzo Delle Arti Napoli, and Hermes: Here/Elsewhere (Cedar Lake, NYC). In dance, ...Toss and Rogues Kunsthalle St. Gallen, SCAD Museum of Art, Ludwig Museum of Budapest, Choreographed by Trisha Brown, (Teatre National de Chaillot, Paris), Available MUDAM Luxembourg, along with many others. Light Choreographed by Lucinda Childs, (Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles). In fashion, Givenchy S/S 2015 (New York), Yeezy 3 by Kanye West at Jonah Bokaer has cultivated a new form of choreography with a structure that Madison Square Garden. John is a frequent collaborator with fashion photographer relies on visual art and design. His aim is to transform notions of how the Steven Klein. public views and understands dance. JACKIE MULLEN Bokaer was born to Tunisian and American parents, and has been active as a STAGE MANAGEMENT choreographer since 2002. He has created over 55 works in a wide range of Jackie Mullen is a frequent collaborator of Jonah Bokaer and Chez Bushwick, mediums, such as flm, opera, applications, and installation, in a variety of and has worked with the team on productions at Lightbox, CPR, and Lincoln venues, ranging from stages, to museums and galleries. He works internationally, Center. Jackie is a 2nd year MFA student in Stage Management at the University exhibiting and touring worldwide. of California in San Diego, and currently splits her time between San Diego and New York City as a freelance stage and production manager. She spent two Bokaer has created works within museum spaces that live between choreography, years as the Technical Director for the Center for Performance Research. Jackie visual art, and moving images. Tis approach to art making has been acknowl- is also the production manager of Critical Point Teatre, an ensemble devising edged by museums such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, PS1 company of Virginia Tech alumni, and illustrates Te Grayscale podcast. MoMA, Te New Museum, Te Museum of Arts & Design, MASS MoCA, Miami MOCA, MAC Marseille, IVAM Valencia, Palazzo Delle Arti Napoli, MARISELA LA GRAVE Kunsthalle St. Gallen, SCAD Museum of Art, Ludwig Museum of Budapest, DIRECTION OF DOCUMENTATION AND CINEMATOGRAPHY MUDAM Luxembourg, along with many others. New York-based media artist Marisela LaGrave’s work is based on photogra- phy, video art installation, multidisciplinary site-specifc performance art A few of Bokaer’s frequent collaborators are Daniel Arsham (2007-Present), works for camera, sound track design, experimental scripts, and works on Anne Carson, Richard Chai, Merce Cunningham, Anthony McCall, Abbott paper. She is a co-founder and artistic director at Magnetic Laboratorium Miller, Tino Sehgal, Robert Wilson (2007-Present), along with other leading (2001), a New York and Paris based media art group (magneticlaboratorium. innovators in mediums such as performance, visual art, literature, and design. com). La Grave’s original concepts and performance works for camera, as well as her works in photography and video art, have been screened, exhibited, Recent awards include the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in presented, and published internationally and housed in private collections Choreography (USA 2015), the Prix Nouveau Talent Chorégraphie (Paris and museums around the world; e.g. Te Smith College Museum of Art, 2011), the Jerome Robbins Special Prize Fellowship in Choreography from Northampton, MA; Te Whitney Museum of American Art, Live Series, New the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy, 2011), and Fellowships from the National York, NY; Paris Underground Film Festival, Paris France; Te Watermill Cen- Endowment for the Arts (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011), and from the United ter, South Hampton, NY; Art Miami Basel Video Lounge, Miami Florida; States Artists (2015). Hamptons International Film Festival, New York; Scotiabank Nuit Blanche in Toronto, Canada; Dance Teater Workshop, Movement Research, New York, NY; Dance Space Saint Marks church, New York, NY; PS1-22, New York, NY; 98 Bowery Gallery, New York, Museo de Bellas Artes & Museo CHARLES FABIUS / Curator & Producer Jacobo Borges, in Caracas, Venezuela; Nikki Dianne Marquardt Gallery in ELLEN JACOBS ASSOCIATES / Media and Public Relations Paris, France. She currently lives and works between Hudson, NY, and New York City. DAVID LIEBERMAN ARTISTS’ REPRESENTATIVES Booking Americas, Asia, Australia, dlartists.com JULIE GEORGE & DAMIEN VALETTE NATASHA KATERINOPOULOS Booking Europe & UK, jgdv.net PROGRAM MANAGEMENT Natasha Katerinopoulos is a New York-based performing arts manager, raised CHEZ BUSHWICK PRODUCERS CIRCLE on the island of Crete, Greece. Since 2011 she has worked with Jonah Bokaer Michael Crisafulli & Morty Newburgh, Mary Cronson, Beth Rudin De- Choreography, the Martha Graham Dance Company, and various independent Woody, Agnes Gund, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Michèle & Steve Pesner, artists. Projects that Natasha has managed have been presented at the Jacob’s Charles Renfro, and Robert Stilin Pillow Dance Festival, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Onassis Cultural Center, the Winspear Opera House, Dallas, the Hudson Opera Jonah Bokaer Choreography would like to sincerely thank the following House, SummerStage Festival, CounterCurrent Festival, the Pérez Art Museum Foundations for their generous support: Miami, the Parrish Art Musem, Te Storefront for Art and Architecture, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Department of Cultural Afairs of the City HAU 2—Hebbel am Ufer Teater Berlin and other venues in the United of New York, Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Ford Foundation, States and Europe. Her artistic work has been seen at Aperture Gallery, Te Jerome Robbins Foundation, Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, National Endowment Kimmel Center, the Press Ofce of the Permanent Mission of Greece to
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